When These Mountains Were The Seashore

	  		

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when these mountains were the seashore 
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when this desert was the ocean floor 
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we would swim beneath the star filled sky 
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we were lovely fish alone in the night 

before the cities met the heavens 
i mean way, way, way back before then 
we would sing as if it were a prayer 
we were lovely fish who dreamed to dare 


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before clocks kept track of the time 
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when day lead gracefully into the night 
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before two simple fish who dreamed to fly 
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created their sadness and new reasons to cry 


when these mountains were the seashore 
when this desert was the ocean floor 
you and i were not born yet 
it's too long ago now even to forget 

when the blue sky found it's courage 
to love and raise and nourish 
back when life was simply meant to be 
our love and care alone in the sea 

before clocks kept track of the time 
when day lead gracefully into the night 
before two fish that dreamed to fly 
got suspicious of a miracle 
and asked themselves why 


when we looked up through the water 
at time and space and wondered 
what it might be like to live up there 
to leave our fins and gills for the air 


before clocks kept track of the time 
before the poems began to rhyme 
before two simple fish that learned to cry 
got suspicious of their love and asked each other why